OFC/NFOEC 2007 Archive Technical Conference: March 25-29, 2007

Exposition: March 27-29, 2007

Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA

OFC/NFOEC 2007 was a true reflection of the thriving industry that is optical communications.

This year’s event showed promising new research achievements, innovative new products from

the field’s leading companies and a vibrant business environment.

With 144 sessions this year and more than 600 presentations, the technical program remained

the premier scientific event for fiber optics. This year’s papers focused on everything from a

new transceiver that transmits and receives record-breaking amounts of high-speed data in

optical form to a fiber-based light source for food detection and a transmission method that

increases high-speed data transmission at 40 Gb/s from 6 kilometers to more than 6,000

kilometers, along with many more significant technical achievements. Additionally, keynote

presentations from industry luminaries CC Fan, Tsinghua University, Beijing and the Chinese

Institute of Communications; Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child; and Mark

Wegleitner, Verizon, drove home the importance of optical communications on an

international scale.

Attracting 13,000 attendees from all over the globe, including 600 participating companies,

the conference had a packed program that showcased the exciting new commercial

developments within optical communications. News from exhibitors showed that companies

are going public and new products are being rolled out on a regular basis. All of this

development is certain to have an impact on the future of the field and OFC/NFOEC continues to

provide the inside track on up-to-the-minute developments in the business of optical

communications.

We can’t wait to see what next year brings and are looking forward to OFC/NFOEC 2008 from

February 24 – 28 in San Diego, CA.

OFC and NFOEC Abstracts Monday, March 26, 2007

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Agenda of Sessions and Key to Authors and Presiders Agenda of Sessions

Key to Authors and Presiders POSTDEADLINE PAPERS

Committees

OFC/NFOEC Technical Program Chairs George Harvey, Tyco Telecommunications, USA, General Chair

Lynn Nelson, AT&T Labs - Res., USA, General Chair

Mark Feuer, AT&T Labs - Res., USA, OFC Program Chair

Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA, OFC Program Chair

Ann VonLehmen, Telcordia Technologies, USA, NFOEC Program Chair

OFC Committees

1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects Tanya Monro, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia, Subcommittee Chair

Misha Brodsky, AT&T Labs - Res., USA

Scott Hamilton, MIT, USA

Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers, Sweden

Satoki Kawanishi, NTT, Japan

Pauli Kiiveri, Helsinki Univ. Technology, Finland

Ming-Jun Li, Corning, USA

Pavel Mamyshev, Mintera, USA

Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, HHI, Germany

Terence Shepherd, QinetiQ, UK

2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide Atul Srivastava, OneTerabit, USA, Subcommittee Chair Jake Bromage, Univ. of Rochester, USA

Weisheng Hu, Shanghai Jiao-Tong Univ., China

Dug-Young Kim, Gwangju Inst., Korea

Ansheng Liu, Intel Corp., USA

Colin McKinstrie, Lucent Technologies, USA

Shu Namiki, AIST, Japan

Johan Nilsson, Southampton Univ, UK

Koichi Tamura, Arasor Corp., Japan

Paul Wysocki, Unopsys, USA

3. Signal Measurement Distortion Compensation Devices and Sensors

Paul Westbrook, OFS, USA, Subcommittee Chair Misha Boroditsky, AT&T Labs, USA

James Brennan, Raydiance, USA

E. J. Friebele, NRL, USA

Martin Guy, Teraxion, Canada

Morten Ibsen, Univ. of Southampton, UK

Byoung-Yoon Kim, KAIST, Korea

Brent Little, Little Optics, USA

David Moss, Univ. of Sydney, Australia

Klaus Petermann, Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany

Peter Winzer, Lucent Technologies, USA

4. Switching Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices

Yoshi Hibino, NTT, Japan, Subcommittee Chair Steven Chou, Princeton Univ., USA

Paul Colbourne, JDS Uniphase, Canada

G. Ronald Hadley, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA

Garo Khanarian, Rohm & Haas, USA

Haifeng Li, Tyco, USA

Dan Marom, Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem, Israel

Myo Ohn, Avanex, USA

Olav Solgaard, Stanford Univ., USA

Hiroshi Takahashi, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan

5. Optoelectronic Devices Ed Murphy, JDS Uniphase, USA, Subcommittee Chair Heinz-Gunter Bach, HHI, Germany

Joe Campbell, Univ. of Virginia, USA

Charles Joyner, Infinera, USA

Ken Morito, Fujitsu, Japan

Paul Morton, Morton Photonics, USA

Bryan Robinson, MIT Lincoln Labs, USA

Kristian Stubkjaer, Technical Univ. Denmark, Denmark

Michael Wale, Bookham, UK

Hiroshi Yasaka, NTT, Japan

6. Digital Transmission Systems Takashi Mizuochi, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan, Subcommittee Chair Martin Birk, AT&T Labs - Res., USA

Jin-Xing Cai, Tyco Telecommunications, USA

Rene-Jean Essiambre, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA Matthew Goodman, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Keang-Po Ho, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan

Wilfried Idler, Alcatel, Germany

Tetsuya Miyazaki, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Werner Rosenkranz, Univ. of Kiel, Germany

Harshad Sardesai, Ciena Corp., USA

Paul Townsend, Univ. College Cork, Ireland

7. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements Michel Chbat, Siemens, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Giuseppe Bordogna, Nortel, Canada

Fred Buchali, Alcatel, Germany Y.C.

Chung, KAIST, South Korea Steven

Frisken, Engana Pty., Australia

Herbert Haunstein, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany

Salim Gurib, France Telecom, France

Barrie Keyworth, JDSU, Canada

Ken-ichi, Kitayama, Osaka Univ., Japan

Loukas Paraschis, Cisco Systems, USA

8. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems Dalma Novak, Pharad LLC, USA, Subcommittee Chair Greg Abbas, Eospace, USA

David Boertjes, Nortel, Canada

Luc Boivin, Verizon Business, USA

Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Ted Darcie, Univ. of Victoria, Canada

Rongqing Hui, Univ. of Kansas, USA

Stefan Spälter, Siemens, Germany

Masashi Usami, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan

Ian White, Univ. of Cambridge, UK

9. Networks Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California at Davis, USA, Subcommittee Chair Neophytos Antoniades, CUNY, USA

Calvin CK Chan, Chinese Univ., Hong Kong

Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Technological Univ., USA

Mohan Gurusamy, Natl. Univ. Singapore, Singapore

Michael O'Mahony, Univ. of Essex, UK

Chunming Qiao, SUNY, USA

Dominic Schupke, Siemens, Germany

Ching-Fong Su, Fujitsu, Japan

Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington Univ., USA

John Wei, AT&T, USA

10. Emerging Applications and Access Solutions Raghu Ranganathan, Ciena Corp., USA, Subcommittee Chair Phillippe Becker, Wasserstein & Co. LP, USA

Milorad Cvijetic, NEC, USA

Hans-Martin Foisel, T-Systems, Germany

Shoichi Hanatani, Hitachi Communication Technologies Ltd., Japan

Glen Kramer, Teknovus Inc., USA

Ashok Krishnamoorthy, Sun Microsystems SSG Physical Sci. Ctr., USA

Soo Jin Park, KT Advanced Technology Lab, Korea

Vik Saxena, Comcast, USA

Glenn Wellbrock, MCI, USA

Yong Xue, DISA, USA

NFOEC Committees

A. Network Systems Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA, Subcommittee Chair Mark Allen, Infinera, USA

Andreas Gladisch, Deutsch Telecom, Germany Claus Popp Larsen, Acreo AB, Sweden

Monica Lazer, AT&T, USA

Claudio Lima, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, USA

Ramesh Nagarajan, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA

Petar Pepeljugoski, IBM Res., USA

Stevan Plote, Looking Glass Networks, USA

Kenneth Stephens, BellSouth Telecommunications, USA

B. Network Technologies Bert Basch, Verizon Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair Mark Boduch, Tellabs, USA

David Chen, Verizon, USA

Mei Du, OFS Labs, USA

Louay Eldada, DuPont Photonics Technologies, USA

Alysha Godin, Nortel, Canada

Jin Hong, Oplink Communications, USA

Bruce Miller, Alcatel, Canada

Rudi Schubert, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Thomas Wood, Lucent Technologies, USA

C. Service Provider Summit & Market Watch Christoph Pfistner, NeoPhotonics, USA, Subcommittee Chair

David Piehler, David Piehler Inc., USA

Shahab Etemad, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Steering Committee

IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Neal

Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA

George Harvey, Tyco Telecommunications, USA

Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs - Res., USA

Bruce Nyman, Princeton Lightwave, USA

Optical Society of America Douglas Baney, Agilent Labs, USA Andrew Chraplyvy, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA

Robert Tkach, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA, Chair

John Zyskind, JDS Uniphase , USA

IEEE/Communications Society Thomas Afferton, Northrup Grumman Corp., USA Nim-Kwan Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA

Stewart Personick, USA

Jane Simmons, Monarch Network Architects, USA

Ex-Officio Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA John Cartledge, Queen's Univ., Canada

Joseph Ford, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA

Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA

Invited Speakers 1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

Entanglement Generation with Fiber Nonlinearity for Quantum Communication in the Telecom Band, Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA. Practical Considerations for the Application of Highly Nonlinear Fibers, Toshiaki Okuno,

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan.

Novel Fibers for Ultra-Short and High-Power Pulse Generation and Propagation, Siddharth

Ramachandran, OFS Labs, USA.

Optical Materials for Fiber Applications: Past, Present and Future, Kathleen Richardson,

Clemson Univ., USA.

Progress in Active Fibers, Jayanta Sahu, Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK.

Progress on Chalcogenide Glass Fibers, Jasbinder Sanghera, NRL, USA. 2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide

Silicon Evanescent Laser in a Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguide, John Bowers, Univ. of

California at Santa Barbara, USA.

Novel Dopants for Silica-Based Fiber Amplifiers, Bernard Dussardier, Univ. of Nice, France.

High Power Optical Amplifiers for Free-Space Communication Systems, Douglas Holcomb,

Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, USA.

High Power Mid-IR Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Ravi Jain, Univ. of New Mexico, USA.

Fiber Technologies for Terawatt Lasers, John Marciante, Univ. of Rochester, USA.

Advances in Femtosecond Fiber Lasers, Jeff Nicholson, OFS Labs, USA.

Tunable Lasers Based on Silica Waveguide Ring Resonators, Morio Takahashi, System Platforms Res. Labs, Japan.

Ultrafast Wavelength-Swept Lasers, Seok-Hyun (Andy) Yun, Harvard Medical School and

Wellman Labs of Photomedicine, MGH, USA. 3. Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensating Devices and Sensors

High Resolution Optical Waveform and Eye Diagram Monitoring, Peter Andrekson,

Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden.

Chalcogenide Glass Waveguides and Grating Devices for All-Optical Signal Conditioning, Benjamin Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia. Distributed Acoustic and Seismic Sensors, Clay Kirkendall, NRL, USA.

Outage Probabilities Revisited, Herwig Kogelnik, Lucent Technologies, USA.

Advances in 40G Electronic Equalizers, Makoto Nakamura, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan.

Recent Progress on FBG-Based Tunable Dispersion Compensators, Yves Painchaud,

TeraXion, Canada.

Strategies for Fabricating Strong-Confinement Microring Filters and Circuits, Henry

Smith, MIT, USA.

Microfiber Photonics, Misha Sumetsky, OFS Labs, USA. 4. Switching, Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices

SOI Photonic Wire Waveguides with Compact Grating Couplers, Roel Baets, Univ. of

Ghent, IMEC, Belgium.

Different Aspects and Design Considerations of AWG in ROADM, Ray Chen, Univ. of

Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

High Performance WSS Technology Based on MEMS, Thomas Ducellier, Metconnex, USA.

LCoS Based Wavelength Selective Switch, Steven Frisken, Engana Pty Ltd., Australia.

Self-Organized Polymer Waveguides, Manabu Kagami, Toyota Central Labs, Japan.

Photonic Crystal Inside-Autocloned PhC's Enable Various Key Functions, Shojiro

Kawakami, Touhoku Univ., Japan.

Telecommunication Application of Si-Based Photonic Crystals, Masaya Notomi, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan.

Highly Integrated PLC-Type Devices with Surface-Mounted Monitor PDs for ROAMD, Ikuo Ogawa, NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.

5. Optoelectronic Devices

Semiconductor: Based Optical Demultiplexing and Wavelength Conversion at 320 Gbit/s, H. J. S. Dorren, Eindhoven Univ. of Tech., Netherlands.

Do Quantum Dots or Quantum Wire Based Devices Offer a Practical Advantage in Producing Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers over Conventional 2-D Active Media? Gadi

Eisenstein, Technion, Israel.

CMOS Based Photonic Integration For Optical Interconnects, Cary Gunn, Luxtera, USA.

80-Gb/s DQPSK Modulator, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Communications Res. Lab, Japan.

Ultra-High-Capacity WDM Photonic Integrated Circuits, Fred Kish, Infinera, USA.

THz Applications and Techniques, Martin Koch, TU Braunschweig, Germany.

PMD Compensation Using Electronic Equalizers, Theodor Kupfer, CoreOpticsGmbH,

Germany.

InP-Based 1.3 and 1.55 µm VCSELs for 10 Gbits/s Applications, Nobuhiko Nishiyama,

Corning Inc., USA.

Recent Advances in AlInAs Avalanche Photodiodes, Eiji Yagyu, Mitsubishi Electric Corp.,

Japan.

6. Digital Transmission Systems

Network Upgrade from Telecom Operators View, Dirk Breuer, Deutsche Telekom T-Systems,

Germany.

Dirrential-Phase-Shift Quantum Key Distribution Using Single-Photon Detectors, Kyo

Inoue, Osaka Univ., Japan.

Compensating Multimode Fiber Dispersion Using Adaptive Optics, Joseph Kahn, Stanford

Univ., USA.

Modulation/Demodulation Schemes for Optical Multi-Level Transmission, Nobuhiko

Kikuchi, Central Res. Lab, Hitachi Ltd., Japan.

Challenges for 100Gbit/s ETDM Transmission and Implementation, Eugen Lach, Alcatel,

Germany.

All-Channel PMD Mitigation Using Distributed Fast Polarization Scrambling in WDM

Systems with FEC, Xiang Liu, Lucent Technologies, USA.

Coherent Detection for Optical Communications Using Digital Signal Processing, Michael Taylor, Univ. College London, UK.

Coherent Receivers for Phase-Shift Keyed Transmission, Christoph Wree, Discovery

Semiconductors, Inc., USA. 7. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

Status of Optical Modules and Sub-Systems Standards, Peter Anslow, Nortel, UK.

Asynchronous Sampling for Optical Performance Monitoring, Sarah Dods, Natl. ICT

Australia Ltd, Australia.

100GbE Transmission Techniques, Gottfried Lehmann, Siemens AG, Germany.

Coherent Detection with Digital Phase Locking, Andreas Leven, Lucent Technologies, USA.

OFDM for Dispersion Compensation, Arthur Lowery, Monash Univ., Australia.

Multi-Granularity OXC Architecture, Atsushi Takada, NTT Corp., Japan.

Monitors to Ensure the Performance of Photonic Networks, Sheryl Woodward, AT&T Labs-

Res., USA. 8. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

Techniques for Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation of Microwave Signals, Wm.

Randall Babbitt, Montana State Univ., USA.

Technologies for Fiber Fed 60 GHz Wireless Systems, Woo-Young Choi, Yonsei Univ.,

Republic of Korea.

All Optical Tunable Wavelength Conversion at > 160 Gb/s, Hideaki Furukawa, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.

RF-over-Fiber and Optical Processing for Navy Applications, Everett Jacobs, SSC San

Diego, USA.

Optical Signal Processing Based on All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion, Akihiro

Maruta, Osaka Univ., Japan.

Photonic Technologies in the NEDO Project, Yoshiaki Nakano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

Optical Switching Technologies for Data Networking, David Neilson, Bell Lab, Lucent

Technologies, USA.

Integrated Optics in Lithium Niobate: New Devices, Circuits and Applications, Wolfgang

Sohler, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany. 9. Networks

Technologies for Building Fast Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks, Daniel Blumenthal,

Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

Has Optics Changed the Networking Paradigm? Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom,

Germany.

Service Availability in Optical Network Design, Monika Jaeger, Deutsche Telekom, Germany. Burst-Switched Metro and Access Networks, Leonid Kazovsky, Stanford Univ., USA.

Carrier-Grade Ethernet for Core Networks, Andreas Kirstaedter, Siemens AG, Germany.

Techno-Economic Issues in Future Telecom Networks, Andrew Lord, British Telecom, UK.

HOPI Testbed, Rick Summerhill, Internet 2, USA.

Impairment Aware Routing, Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology, Greece. 10. Emerging Applications and Access Solutions

Hybrid Optical-Wireless Networks, Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Res., USA.

Comparative Analysis of PON-Based Architectures PON: Lessons Learned, Junichi

Nakagawa, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan.

Recent Research Activities of WDM-PON in Korea, Hyung-Jin Park, Korea Telecom,

Republic of Korea.

WDM-PON with Colorless ONUs, Franck Payoux, France Telecom, France.

Waveguides in PCB, Petar Pepeljugoski, IBM Res., USA.

GRID and Optical Networks: How to Bridge the Gap? Nageswara, S. V. Rao, Oak Ridge

Natl. Lab, USA.

Optical VPN or Inter-Provider Optical VPN, Tomonori Takeda, NTT, Japan.

OCDMA Access Systems Using Ultra-Long Super-Structured En/Decoder, Xu Wang, Natl.

Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.

Short Distance Optical Connections for Home Networks, Sensing and Mobile Systems, Olaf

Ziemann, POF-AC Polymer Optical Fiber Application Ctr., Germany. NFOEC A: Network Systems

Optical/Wireless Access Architecture and Field Trials, Peter Magill, AT&T, USA.

Optical Meshed Networks: From Concept to Deployment, Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Siemens

Communications, USA. NFOEC B: Network Technologies

ROADM Deployment, Challenges and Applications, Ron Bernhey, Verizon, USA.

OA&M in Packet Transport Networks, Leon Bruckman, Corrigent Systems, USA.

Falling Boundaries from Metro to ULH Optical Transport Equipment, Michel Chbat,

Siemens Communications, Inc., USA.

Applications of Liquid Crystal Technology to Telecommunication Devices, Jack Kelly,

CoAdna Photonics, USA.

Design and Implementation of an Optical Dynamic Core Network: Engineering Considerations, Kim Papakos, Tellabs, USA. Massively-Regenerator Based DWDM Systems, David Welch, Infinera Corp., USA.

Tutorial Speakers 1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects Nonlinear Fibers and Applications, Govind Agrawal; Univ. of Rochester, USA Dispersion Compensating Fibers: Properties and Applications, Lars Grüner-Nielsen; OFS

Denmark, Denmark

2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide Fiber Parametric Amplifiers: Physics and Applications, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA

Silicon Photonics, Graham Reed; UK

3. Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensating Devices and Sensors Coupled Resonator Optical Devices, Amnon Yariv; Caltech, USA

4. Switching, Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices

High Density Integration of Functional Optical Circuits with Higher Index Difference, Brent Little; Little Optics, USA

5. Optoelectronic Devices

Recent Advances in Germanium Quantum Well Structures — A New Modulation Mechanism for Silicon-Compatible Optics, David A. B. Miller; Stanford Univ., USA

6. Digital Transmission Systems D(Q)PSK Transmission Technologies for ULH Systems, Stuart Abbott; Tyco

Telecommunications, USA

Introduction to Quantum Communications, Yoshihisa Yamamoto; Stanford Univ., USA

7. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements Electronic Dispersion Compensation, Henning Bülow; Alcatel SEL AG, Germany ROADM Network Elements, Madhu Krishnaswamy; JDSU, Canada

8. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems SOA-Based All Optical Processing, Alistair J. Poustie; Ctr. for Integrated Photonics, UK

9. Networks Services from a Carrier's Perspective, Stuart Elby; Verizon Communications, USA

10. Emerging Applications and Access Solutions

Service Oriented Architectures with User Controlled Light Paths, Bill St. Arnaud; Canarie Inc., Canada

NFOEC B: Network Technologies Electronic Dispersion Compensation, Charles Laperle; Nortel, Canada

Workshops & Panels Workshops will be held on Sunday, March 25 from 3:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. - 7:30

p.m. and Monday, March 26 from 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. The workshops provide an interactive

learning environment and are open to all conference registrants.

OSuA, Sunday, March 25, 3:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Ballroom A

100 Gpbs Ethernet Systems, Applications and Enabling Technologies, Heinz-Gunter Bach¹,

Bryan Robinson², Marcus Duelk³, John D'Ambrosia4; ¹Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany, ²MIT

Lincoln Labs, USA, ³Lucent Technologies, USA, 4Force10 Networks, Inc., USA

Focus on 100 Gb/s Ethernet is growing. The applications and architectures driving the need for

100 GbE will be defined, and used to outline the challenges that will need to be overcome. High

speed electrical and optical components and transmission technologies are being explored, and

updates will be provided. The question of serial versus parallel transmission schemes will be

considered. Finally, recent standards activity and challenges of implementing systems to address

100GbE will be explored. The last part of the workshop will include a panel session with the

audience discussing the hurdles that must be overcome to develop 100 GbE.

OSuB, Sunday, March 25, 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Ballroom B

Optical Amplifiers for Reconfigurable Dynamic Networks, Martin Birk¹, Atul Srivastava²;

¹AT&T Labs - Res., USA, ²OneTerabit, USA

Optical amplifiers are vital components of reconfigurable dynamic networks using remotely

reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs). Service providers can reduce per-

wavelength cost by providing express channels through ROADM nodes, with longer reach

between regeneration sites. Panelists address the critical challenges and potential solutions for

application of EDFA’s in dynamic networks. Topics include:

Transients in reconfigurable networks,

Tighter control requirements on power of channels due to limits posed by nonlinear

effects and OSNR in longer-reach systems

Static and dynamic spectral tilt compensation due to Raman effect

Gain error due to spectral hole burning

Polarization dependent gain/loss.

OSuC, Sunday, March 25, 3:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Ballroom C

Future Optical Networks, Chunming Qiao¹, Mike O'Mahony², Daniel Blumenthal³, Ken-ichi

Kitayama4, Tanya Politi

5; ¹SUNY at Buffalo, USA, ²Univ. of Essex, UK, ³Univ. of California at

Santa Barbara, USA, 4Osaka Univ., Japan,

5Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece

Optical networking is of growing interest, but many challenges remain and debates over its

applications are ongoing. This workshop will focus on visions of future optical networking

architectures, technologies, and their roles and applications. It will feature invited talks from

different regions to present views on (1) optical networking architectures 5-10 years from now,

(2), how do we get there, i.e., what technological challenges lie ahead and (3) what are the major

roles and applications of these future networks. The workshop will have a panel comprising

people from government, industry, and academia to discuss and debate the above topic.

Invited Speakers include:

Technologies, Architecture and Services for the Next-Generation Core Optical Networks, Adel Saleh, DARPA/ITO, USA

Optical Networks in GENI, Paul Morton, NSF, USA

Network Transformation and the Role of Optical Networks, Andreas Gladisch, T-Systems,

Germany

Terabit LAN Challenges, Osamu Ishida, NTT Labs, Japan

Optical Networks for IT, Dimitra Simeonidou, Univ. of Essex, UK

A Regional Multicasting Testbed in China, Weisheng Hu, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China

Photonic Service Gateways in the Japan's Lambda Utility Project, Soichiro Araki, NEC

Labs, Japan

Photonics in Converged Packet Networks, Rod Alferness, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Photonics 21- Technology Platform, Peter van Daele, Univ. of Gent, Belgium

A National Project on Photonic Network Technologies: Development of an Optical Label Switching Node Prototype, Yoshiaki Nakano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Silicon Photonics for Optical Buffers and Transmitters, John Bowers, Univ. of California at

Santa Barbara, USA

For more information about this workshop visit:

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~qiao/workshop/FON2

OSuD, Sunday, March 25, 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Ballroom D

Multi-Port WSS/ROADM Technologies: Performance Comparisons, Ting Wang¹, Paul

Colbourne²; ¹NEC Labs, USA, ²JDS Uniphase, Canada

Agile optical networks employing multi-port Wavelength Selective Switches are enabling

unprecedented configuration and reconfiguration flexibility. There has been rapid development

of WSS/ROADM technology in recent years, with numerous competing design approaches. This

workshop outlines the needs of network suppliers and carriers, and compares these needs with

cost and performance characteristics of various WSS/ROADM technologies. We discuss the

most practical convergence point between wish lists of network suppliers and the capabilities of

WSS/ROADM technologies, now and in the future. Presentations by carriers, network suppliers

and WSS/ROADM suppliers are followed by a discussion period in which audience participation

is encouraged.

OSuE, Sunday, March 25, 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.,

Ballroom E

Future of Fiber Optic Sensors, Joseph Friebele; NRL, USA

Fiber optic sensors have been developed over the past 30 years, and a number have been

successfully commercialized and are in field applications today. New FO technologies based on

silica and non-silica specialty fibers are under development, including chemical/biological

sensors, sensors using microstructured fibers, nanoparticles, surface plasmons, and slow light.

One issue is how to transition new sensors from the laboratory to commercial applications where

they could be used to advantage. This workshop will address the present and future prospects for

FO sensors, including sensor development and commercialization with talks on sensing

techniques and applications, as well as emerging technologies.

OMA, Monday, March 26, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., Ballroom A

Slow Light, Scott A. Hamilton¹, Satoki Kawanishi², Alan Willner³ ¹MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, ²NTT

Network Innovation Labs, Japan, ³Univ. of Southern California, USA

Researchers have worked for three decades to develop fiber networks capable of transmitting

more than a million-billion data bits at light speed around the globe daily. Today, the focus has

shifted to developing techniques for slowing, or even stopping, light to enable ground-breaking

new capabilities in multi-terabit-per-second transparent packet routing, wideband computer

interconnects, unbreakable quantum cryptography, massively-parallel quantum computing, and

possibly even enabling the study of relativistic physics by creating an artificial black hole in the

laboratory. In this workshop, we will discuss the physics of light control, material and structural

engineering used for slowing light, and next-generation system applications.

OMC, Monday, March 26, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., Ballroom D

Challenges in Meshed Optical Networks, Kathy Tse; AT&T Labs, USA

This workshop will examine all aspects of planning and deploying a photonic mesh network and

the enabling technologies and features that provide the value-added functionality. Participants

range from Carriers that have deployed or are planning to deploy new metro/regional

architectures or backbones, systems developers that provide the end-to-end solutions and critical

component suppliers. Discussion will include challenges such as network planning and

engineering trade-offs, timeframes for new technologies and value propositions.

OMD, Monday, March 26, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., Ballroom E

Optical and Electronic Techniques for Signal Processing in Optical Fiber Communications,

John C. Cartledge¹, José Capmany², Henning Bülow³, Hideki Kamitsuna4; ¹Queen's Univ.,

Canada, ²Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, ³Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Germany, 4NTT

Photonics Labs, Japan

Recently, there has been considerable attention focused on signal processing for optical fiber

communications in both the optical and electronic domains. This has led to innovative techniques

that process signals within the same domain or convert signals to and from another domain for

processing. The objective of the workshop is to explore the current status and future challenges

of various aspects of optical fiber communications that can be implemented using optical or

electronic techniques. These include, but are not limited to, time division multiplexing and

demultiplexing, clock recovery, signal regeneration, compensation for transmission impairments,

microwave filtering, and analog-to-digital conversion.

Invited speakers include:

Fred Buchali, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany

Chris Doerr, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka Univ., Japan

Sander Jansen, KDDI Labs, Japan

Masataka Nakazawa, Tohoku Univ., Japan

Jim Stimple, Agilent, USA

Jean-Claude Simon, CNRS-ENSSAT, France

OMB, Monday, March 26, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., Ballroom C

Ultra-Short Reach Interconnects, Ashok Krishnamoorthy; Sun Microsystems Inc., USA

In recent years, we have witnessed the adoption of very-short reach fiber optic links (<300m)

within central offices and data centers; the release of several multi-source agreements between

vendors; the announcement of several single-channel and parallel fiber optic products with

aggregate bandwidths ranging from 2Gbps to 40Gbps; the growing demand for Infiniband and

Fiberchannel transceivers, and the emergence of a 10Gbps Ethernet standard. We have also

witnessed the deployment of fiber optic data networks within automobiles. This workshop will

review progress in very short reach interconnects and discuss potentials for ultra-short reach

fiber optical interconnections between components within a system.

Invited Speakers include:

Marc A. Taubenblatt, IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, USA

Alex Dickenson, Luxtera, USA

Ron Ho, Sun Microsystems, USA

Dan Blumenthal, Professor, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Loukas Paraschis, Technical Leaders, Service Provider Group, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA

Stan Swirhun, Vice President and General Manager, Zarlink Semiconductor, USA

Mario Paniccia, Director of Photonics, Intel Corp., USA

John Lambkin, Chief Technology Officer, Firecomms, Ireland

Abhijit Shanbhag, Chief Technology Officer, Scintera Networks, USA

NFOEC WORKSHOP

NMA, Monday, March 26, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., Ballroom B

40 Gig Networks: The Actual World PMD (Polarization Mode Dispersion) Challenge, Sergio Barcelos; FiberWork Optical Communications, Brazil

With the current move towards 40Gb/s router interfaces, DWDM transmission shall have to

follow swiftly. New major long distance fiber constructions are not expected soon, thus 40Gig

transmission must tolerate PMD impairments as currently seen in the field rather than as

idealized in laboratory demonstrations. However, the extent of the world PMD problem has not

yet been recognized as most PMD-impaired networks are still operating at low channel rates and

few DWDM channels. This workshop will discuss the PMD levels of the world installed fiber

plant to evaluate its compliance with 40Gig. Interested presenters should contact the organizer.

Invited Speakers include:

PMD Measurements and Standards, Richard Ednay, Optical Technology Training Ltd., United

Kingdom

Cost Impact of PMD on 40G Deployment, Michel P. Belanger, Kim Roberts; Nortel Networks,

Canada

40G & PMD: Market at a Crossroads, Karen Liu, Ian Redpath; Ovum-RHK, United Kingdom

and USA

Techno-economic Considerations for Managing Real World Installed Fiber Plant PMD, Ross Saunders, StrataLight Communications, USA

Review of Telcordia PMD Field Measurement Results, John W. Peters, Telcordia, USA

PMD as Bottleneck Problem for the Introduction of 40Gbit/s and Future 100Gbit/s Ethernet into German WDM Backbone, Werner Weiershausen, T-Systems, Germany

PMD Measurement Experiences – United Kingdom, Richard Ednay, Optical Technology

Training Ltd., United Kingdom

PMD Measurement Experiences – Portugal, Modesto de Morais, Joaquim Anacleto;

Portuguese Electrotechnical Inst., Portugal

Sharing worldwide PMD tests results: are they all meeting international standards

specifications?, Andre Girard¹, Dan Källgren²; ¹Exfo, Canada, ²Telia Sonera, Sweden

Nation-wide PMD audit of installed fiber networks, Elso L. Rigon, FiberWork Optical

Communication, Brazil and USA

Market Watch Tuesday, March 27-Thursday, March 29, 2007

OFC/NFOEC Exhibit Floor Theater

This three-day series of panel sessions engage the applications and business communities in the

field of optical communications. Presentations and panel discussions feature esteemed guest

speakers from industry, research, and the investment community.

The program will be located on the exhibit floor, so attendees can easily attend the sessions and

tour the exhibit hall. Audience members are encouraged to participate in the question and answer

segments that follow the presentations.

Tuesday, March 27

12:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.

Panel I: Business and Management Insights

Moderator: Milton Chang, Incubic, USA

Resurgence in the core network opportunities, as well as the continuing growth of broadband

access has stirred the optical value chain in the past year. This session will feature business

leaders from several sectors, sharing insights that cover a spectrum of issues highly relevant to

everyone in our industry.

Speakers:

The Future of Optical Networking: Moving Toward an Ethernet-WDM Tranport Michael Howard, Principal Analyst & Co-Founder, Infonetics Research, Inc., USA

Transformation to the All-Packet Transport Network - Challenges, Solutions, Enablers,

and Migration Strategies David P. Dixson, Vice President, Optical Network Division, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Title to Be Announced Tim Jenks, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, NeoPhotonics, USA

Wednesday, March 28

2:00 p.m. – 4:00pm

Panel II: Opaque vs. Transparent Optical Networks

Moderator: Karen Liu, Research Director, Ovum RHK, USA

Much of the driving force in the past ten years behind network evolution has

been the ideal of the all-optical network, with more optical regeneration, and

less electronic regeneration. Recently, some in the vendor community have

proposed just the opposite - that by embracing electronic switching as a core

asset of the optical network, both operating and capital expenses can be

lowered. This latest paradigm shift has stirred vigorous debate in both the

vendor and carrier communities. The session with include leading representatives from each

community to shed more light on this important and timely topic.

Speakers:

The Value Proposition of Electronic over Optical Switching in an Optical Network Dave Welch, Founder, Infinera, USA

The Evolution of Optical Networking Transparency beyond Further, Faster, and Cheaper Thomas A. Strasser, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Nistica, Inc., USA

Optimizing the optical transport layer for packet traffic Loukas Paraschis, Advanced Technology, Core Routing, Cisco Systems, USA

Optical Networks in Today's Demand Environment Robert Feuerstein, Senior Architect, Level 3 Communications, Inc., USA

Thursday, March 29

8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Panel III: ROADMs

Moderator: Marc Stiller, Director, Product Engineering, NeoPhotonics

During the past 3 years, optical network deployments have gone from desire to require for

ROADM functionality. The session explores the drivers behind this transition, including

emerging technologies for ROADM, system architecture and changes in system traffic and

growth patterns. Leaders from the components, systems and network deployment sectors will

discuss their views on the drive for and future of ROADMs.

Speakers:

ROADM Technology and Functionality: The Road Ahead Jy Bhardwa, General Manager, Agile Optical Networks Business Unit, JDSU, USA

Title to Be Announced Jeffrey Maddox, PLM, Optical Products, Cisco

Recent Advances on ROADM Technologies Yoshinori Hibino, Executive Manager, NTT Network Labs, Japan

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Panel IV: A Wall Street Perspective

Moderator: Phil Becker, Senior Investment Director, Wasserstein Ventures

There has been continued consolidation in the US service provider landscape, as well as

consolidation on the equipment provider side in 2006. This has put more pressure on smaller

companies with meaningful products to find the right partners to bring their products to market.

The traditional telecom service providers have seen their business models continue to be

threatened by triple play competition from the cable providers, and loss of market share as VoIP

cannibalizes their traditional landline market. These disruptions have spurred a renaissance in

equipment deployment as providers need to step up the scope and quality of their services,

especially for television and high speed Internet. FTTP deployment has started to hit its stride

with the continued deployment of the Verizon FIOS service and its inroads on the cable

providers. IPOs have been less than successful in 2006, and Wall St. has penalized a number of

players for erosion in market share or a need for increased capital expenditures. It is not yet clear

how the telecom market landscape will change and how Wall St. will choose to reward the

winners.

Speakers:

Optical Telecom is Blossoming Again John Dexheimer, Partner, First Analysis Private Equity, USA

A Contrarian View of the Communications Market Russell A. Johnson, Partner, Kalkhoven, Pettit, Levin & Johnson Ventures, USA

Value Creation and Monetization in Optical Modules Andrew Schmitt, General Partner, Nyquist Capital, USA

Title To Be Announced Jeffrey Osborne, Director, CIBC World Markets

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Panel V: Escalating Bandwidth Demands in Enterprise Networking

Moderator: Dawn Hogh, Vice President, Marketing, OpVista, Inc.

Enterprises are currently evaluating alternative solutions, with some, like

Google, garnering headlines by deploying their own network build-outs.

This session discusses how operators and enterprises are responding to the

challenges created by escalating bandwidth demands with applications

such as storage, security, and video. The session features speakers from the

enterprise, operator, equipment provider, and analyst community,

providing their views on what is driving higher bandwidth requirements in the optical layer by

enterprises.

Speakers:

Optical Networking Equipment Forecast by Vertical Markets, Eve Griliches, Program Manager, Telecommunications, IDC, USA

Enterprise communication fabric - The challenge of integrating applications and allocating

network resources Thomas Scheibe, Manager, Product Management, Internet Switching BU, Cisco Systems, USA

Optical Ethernet Methodologies in MSO Markets Bill Trubey, Principal Network Architect, Time Warner Cable, USA

Panel Sessions

ASON/GMPLS Monica Lazer; AT&T, USA

Industry wide work is advancing standards and interoperability agreements in support of

intelligent optical networks. Significant advances in standardization include:

ITU-T has completed recommendations on the Automatically Switched Optical Networks

(ASON) architecture and requirements for signaling, routing, and neighbor discovery.

IETF has completed RFCs for GMPLS signaling covering SONET/SDH, Optical

Transport Networks (OTN), and is working on routing protocols extensions.

Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has completed work on Interoperability

Agreements (IAs) for UNI and E-NNI signaling, it has staged several world-wide

interoperability events, and is working on updates to IAs.

TMF is completing work on extending the Multi-Technology Network Management (MTNM) interface for management of ASON networks.

This panel focuses on network applications for ASON/GMPLS from both vendor and carrier

perspectives.

FTTX: New Directions Joseph M. Finn; Verizon Technology Organization

The last few years have seen increasing deployment of access technologies such as Fiber to the

Premises (FTTP) and Fiber to the Node (FTTN). Millions of homes and businesses have already

been passed with these robust fiber based networks. Large scale deployments will continue for

the next several years making available to millions of new customers advanced triple play

services: POTS, high speed Internet and video (IPTV and RF broadcast). The fiber access

networks, requiring billions of dollars of investment, will need to provide decades of service and

therefore must support technology evolution from BPON to GPON and beyond to meet the

increasing bandwidth demands while simultaneously lowering the cost of providing services.

The panel presentations will provide an overview of the current state of technology and the

various options under consideration by industry and standards organizations to evolve the

technology. The panel will discuss the current state of FTTx technologies, architectures and

deployments; near term technology advancements and deployment plans; and long term

technology trends and standards activities targeting even greater service capabilities and reduced

costs.

Presentation Topics:

Verizon’s FTTP BPON deployment & GPON transition

Architecture design & service capabilities

Current status of BPON deployments & introduction of GPON

AT&T’s FTTN U-verse IPTV architecture & deployment

End to end reference architecture

Service capabilities, QoS management, scaling & routing

Current and planned deployments

Status of new initiatives by standards groups (FSAN, ITU-T and IEEE 802.3) considering

next generation PONs

Higher data rates (10 Gbps)

Longer reach (up to 120 km)

More wavelengths (WDM)

Increased splitting (128 per PON)

Capability of the Optical Data Network (ODN) to support evolving technologies and reduce

costs

ODN and OSP innovations to enable higher performance with lower first costs and lower

lifecycle costs

Architecture transition strategies for assimilating new technologies

Considerations for efficiently evolving FTTx networks to increase capabilities while

utilizing existing investment

Panelists:

Dr. Frank Effenberger, Director, FTTx Advanced Technologies, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

John George, Director, FTTx Solutions, OFS

Ron Heron, Director, Network Strategy, Alcatel-Lucent

Kuo-Hui Liu, Executive Director, Lightspeed Network & Services Architecture

AT&T Labs, Inc.

Vincent O’Byrne, Director, Access Network Design & Integration, Verizon Technology

Plenary Session The OFC/NFOEC 2007 Plenary Session took place on Tuesday, March 27.

Mark A. Wegleitner

Senior Vice President - Technology and Network Planning,

Chief Technology Officer

Verizon Communications

Maximizing the Impact of Optical Technology (603KB) Abstract: The optical transport network is evolving based on the requirement to support higher

bandwidth for business and residential services while reducing costs. Optical technology has

matured to make an end-to-end all optical network both practical and economical. This network

architecture will provide the flexibility to incrementally expand based on customer demand by

providing key features such as integrated packet processing, mesh topology and restoration,

optical broadcast, and an optical control plane. Multi-wavelength optical communication

backbone networks and systems have evolved to support a dynamic mesh network with reduced

regeneration requirements and improved reach characteristics while maintaining a high level of

integration to keep cost and complexity manageable. Optical access technology (i.e., fiber to the

premises) has proven a viable multi-service delivery vehicle. Component technology -- in

particular wavelength switching -- has reached a level of maturity where it can be applied to

support mesh topologies in DWDM systems -- both metropolitan and long-haul. The integration

and price points of these switches and other optical components (such as amplifiers, filters and

lasers) now allow a dynamic and flexible wavelength network to be extended much closer to the

customer. Application of Raman amplification, electronic dispersion compensation, and

advanced modulation techniques will also improve system reach and capacity.

Biography: Mark Wegleitner is Senior Vice President – Technology and Network Planning, and

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Verizon Communications. His responsibilities include

technology assessment, network architecture, platform development and laboratory testing for

the local and long distance wireline communications businesses, as well as network planning for

local wireline communications. In his current role, he and his organization support all business

units in the management of technology and network matters.

Prior to his current assignment, Wegleitner served as Vice President, Technology & Engineering

at Bell Atlantic Network Services, where he was responsible for all technology and engineering

functions. And prior to that, he was CTO at Bell Atlantic Network Services.

Since joining Bell Atlantic, he has also held a variety of other management positions in strategic

planning, network architecture, technology development, information systems, research and

development, broadband implementation and new services technology.

Wegleitner began his career with Bell Telephone Laboratories in local switching systems

development. He later joined the exchange switching systems design organization at AT&T

General Departments, where he had responsibility for the introduction of new features and

services on local switching systems. He held another brief assignment with Bell Laboratories in

local switching systems engineering before transferring to Bell Atlantic.

Wegleitner received a B.A. in mathematics from St. John's University, and an M.S. in electrical

engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Chongcheng (CC) Fan

Retired Professor, Electronic Engineering Department

Tsinghua University, Beijing Vice Director, Professional Group of Optical Communication

Chinese Institute of Communications

Optical Fiber Communications in Mainland China: Activities and

Visions of Carriers, Equipment Vendors and Academia (2MB) Abstract: Since 2004, the optical fiber communication industry has been under rational

development in mainland China after the “telecom winter.” As of June 2006, China has

established the largest telephone network with 365.3 million (32% rural) fixed and 426.4 million

mobile phone subscribers, while mobile communication occupies the biggest part (43.5%) of the

total revenue. The capex/revenue ratio of the carriers is still as high as 35% in 2005, which is

good news for system vendors. On the Internet side, the number of users reaches 123 million

(penetration 9.4%; room for expansion), with 63% broadband (xDSL or cable modem) related. It

is interesting to note that while the number of Internet users increased almost linearly during the

past three years (20 million/year), the total international bandwidth of the Internet (214.7Gb/s in

June 2006) increased exponentially during the same period of time (approx. 2 times/year).

Internet users are bandwidth-hungry all the time. Accordingly, DWDM LH systems and large

scale metro networks, less to say broadband access networks, are all under serious concern of

carriers and equipment vendors. In fact, how to survive and generate more revenue and profit

through improved and novel services becomes a serious challenge to service providers,

especially traditional telcos. Visions and roadmaps of major carriers will be discussed. As for

system vendors, achievements and strategies of leading companies will be introduced and

analyzed. Finally, typical industrial and academic R&D projects with different targets and

supported by various national programs, research institutes and universities will be briefly

described.

Biography: CC Fan graduated from the Department of Radio Engineering, Tsinghua University,

Beijing, China in 1958. He then joined the faculty there and was engaged in teaching and

research activities in the field of microwave electronics. Since 1979, he switched to guided-wave

optics and photonics, and is now a retired professor of the Electronic Engineering Department of

Tsinghua University. His research interests include fiber transmission systems, optical

amplifiers, optical nonlinearities, fiber Bragg gratings and photonic bandgap structures, etc. He

was the principal investigator of numerous projects sponsored by the National Science

Foundation of China, the State Commission of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of

Information Industry, and authored/co-authored more than 100 journal and conference papers

and a graduate-level textbook titled Guided-Wave Optics. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of

America and serves as the vice director of the Professional Group of Optical Communication of

the Chinese Institute of Communications.

Nicholas Negroponte

Founder and Chairman

One Laptop per Child

Networks without Operators (3MB)

Abstract: Being digital is to be porous and blurring, turning previously crisp

distinctions into more ambiguous and concurrent occasions. For example,

home and work, consumption and creation, management and labor, teacher and student are no

longer flip sides of a coin, but a single condition that can change state from one moment to the

next. Telecommunciations is no different. The Internet itself is living proof that man-made

systems can emerge bottoms-up, more like the natural phenomena. What used to be a walled

garden of voice service, that one either used or operated, is now morphing into a more peer-to-

peer, data-centric structure. A “flower box” theory of telecommunications will be presented,

including the specific example of the $100 laptop being developed by the One Laptop per Child

non-profit association.

Biography: Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-

profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of

the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. A

graduate of MIT, Nicholas was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a

member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its

doors in 1985. He is also author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated

into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Nicholas serves on the board of directors for

Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies

for information and entertainment. He has provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies,

including Wired magazine.

Service Provider Summit Wednesday, March 28, 2007

OFC/NFOEC Exhibit Floor Theater

The Service Provider Summit is open to all Conference and Exhibit-only Attendees! Join

your colleagues for this dynamic program with topics and speakers of interest to CTOs, network

architects, network designers and technologists within the service provider and carrier sector.

The program includes panel discussions, keynote presentations, exhibit time, and networking

time.

The program will be located on the exhibit floor, so attendees can easily attend the sessions and

tour the exhibit hall. Audience members are encouraged to participate in the question and answer

segments that follow the presentations.

Keynote Presentation

Business Models and Services with Managed Broadband Access Speaker: Sanghoon Lee, Senior Executive Vice President, Korea Telecom, Korea

Abstract: Dr. Lee will briefly introduce the transition of value chain flows in the

recent ICT trend and mention the situation that Telco should be changed. As the

competition grows rapidly, ISPs are difficult to generate additional revenue with

traditional access services. They need to find distinctive differentiated services for

customers, such as personalized services, contents based services, and converged

communication services.

For enabling these differentiated and converged services on personal preference, we should upgrade

the network into broadband, QoS guaranteed, and robust secured capability. For this purpose, Dr.

Lee will show the current status of the advanced network that KT is deploying now. And, some key

points derived from this experience will be taken into account.

Biography: Sanghoon Lee is Senior Executive Vice President of KT, where his organization,

Business Group is responsible for KT’s business planning and service launching. Prior to the

current appointment, he had served in numerous positions including CTO, COO, and the head of

Business Marketing Group. Before he joined to KT, he was with Bell Communications Research

(Bellcore) from 1984 to 1991, where his research activities were in ATM Technology and

broadband networks. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Seoul National

University, Korea, in 1978, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in systems engineering from the University

of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1982 and 1984 respectively. Dr. Lee has been contributing to

setting up the deployment strategy of the national Broadband infrastructure in Korea. Currently, he

served as a chairman of Korea Network Research Association. He is a member of National

Academy of Engineering in Korea and the fellow of IEEE.

Panel I: FTTx: We have Lift Off!

Moderator: Frank Effenberger, Director, FTTx Advance Technology, Huawei

Technologies America, USA

In the U.S., fiber to the home networks have been an objective as tantalizing as

the moon, and almost as unreachable. There have been numerous technology

trials and tentative plans to deploy fiber access, but until recently none of these

transitioned into a full mass deployment. But, in the past year or so significant

deployments have begun in North America: millions of homes are passed by fiber and hundreds

of thousands of active customers are online today. Japan is even further along in the deployment

of fiber, with several millions of fiber customers online. Deep fiber with VDSL2 is also very

popular, and new markets are opening every day. Thus, it can be argued that we have finally

overcome the initial hurdles, and are on the road to fiber access for everybody.

The network operators and their vendor partners have gained a wealth of important lessons

through these deployments. These vary from the highly technical aspects of providing video over

IP, to the prosaic matters of placing cables inside existing structures. All of these are important if

the deployment is to be successful and scalable. At the same time, the services provided are

changing and evolving to take advantage of the massive bandwidth available. Bandwidth tiers

are increasing rapidly, and more intelligent services such as multimedia voice and video

applications are becoming commonplace. To meet this ever-changing market of demands and

issues, the technology of FTTx is also changing. The conversion of B-PON systems to E-PON

and G-PON systems are well underway or completed, and the next step of WDM PON or 10G

PON are beginning to gain traction in the standards committees.

Join us in this exciting session where executives from major service providers will present their

views on the opportunities and challenges for FTTx around the world. The individual

presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and open Q&A session.

Speakers:

FTTH Evolution in Japan Motoyuki Ii, General Manager, Plant Planning Dept., Network Business Headquarters, NTT EAST Corp., Japan

Motoyuji Ii, General Manager, Network Business Headquarters, NTT East

Corporation is responsible for the development and deployment of the FTTH

plant at NTT East. After joining NTT in 1983, Mr. Ii was engaged in the development of outside

telecom plants, facility investment planning, international procurement, global IP backbone

network planning, and operations. In 2003, Mr. Ii served as a general manager of an NTT

holding company and was responsible for NTT group management.

Verizon's Broadband Strategy Vincent A. O'Byrne, Director of Technology, Verizon, Technology Organization, USA

Vincent O'Byrne received his B.SC. from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, his PhD from the

University of North Wales and his MBA from Babson College, USA. He has over 18 years

experience in the Wireline and Wireless Telecommunications industry. Mr. O’Byrne is a

Director of Technology within Verizon Technology Organization (VTO). His group focuses on

the specification, design and integration of new Wireline access technologies within the Verizon

Network for the residential and small business markets. This responsibility includes the

leadership of wireline access RFPs and the vendor management through to the realization of

those technologies as stable platforms in the Network. Primary focus is on BPON and GPON,

expansion of FTTP to the Multiple Dwelling Unit and overall Network Stability.

Scaling FTTx Networks for Video, Voice and Data Services Raj Savoor, General Manager, AT&T Labs, USA

Raj Savoor supports the Network Systems Engineering function for managing

and optimizing Layer 1-3 networks and associated Broadband Applications.

Mr. Savoor’s group manages the AT&T broadband tool framework that supports service

assurance, capacity management, performance management and

provisioning optimization for the AT&T DSL, PON, ATM, Ethernet and IP networks.

Next Generation Optical Access Technology Alternatives

Ronald C. Menendez, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Panel II: Emerging Networks

Moderator: George Clapp, Chief Scientist, Telcordia, USA

There is a widely shared vision of a converged network in which many services

are carried by a common IP/MPLS network over very high capacity optical

transport networks. There is less consensus, however, about the allocation of

functions between IP/MPLS and the optical network. For example, many

carriers are deploying intelligent optical networks that can establish new circuit services rapidly

and autonomously. Other carriers are deploying IP-centric networks in which routers perform

more functions and the optical network provides simple transport services.

Join a panel of experts from carriers around the globe to explore the rationales for the different

network architectures and compare their relative advantages and disadvantages. The individual

presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and open Q&A session.

Speakers:

Internet2 Hybrid Networking and the HOPI Project Rick Summerhill, Director, Network Research, Architecture and Technologies, Internet2, USA

As Director of Network Research, Architecture, and Technologies, Rick Summerhill has

responsibility for the Abilene Observatory, the HOPI Project, and other projects related to

network research and the development of next generation network architectures. Prior to joining

Internet2 in December of 2002, Rick served as the executive director of the Great Plains

Network, an Internet2 GigaPop centered at Kansas City, Missouri. He has been associated with

network engineering at the campus, regional and national levels for the last twenty years. Prior to

network engineering, he served on the research faculty in Mathematics at Kansas State

University. Rick attended Monmouth College where he received a B.A. in Mathematics and

Physics and The University of Iowa where he received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics.

Practical Aspects of Bandwidth on Demand in Optical Networks Robert Doverspike, Director of Transport Network Evolution Research,

AT&T Labs Res., USA

Robert Doverspike received his undergraduate degree from the University of

Colorado and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Doverspike started with Bell Labs in 1979 and, upon divestiture of the

Bell System, went to Bellcore (now Telcordia). In 1997 he went to AT&T Labs (Research) and

is now Director of the Transport Network Evolution Research Department. Dr. Doverspike has

made extensive contributions to the field of optimization in multi-layered transmission and

switching networks and pioneered the concept of packet transport in metro and long distance

networks. His work also includes advanced transport and IP network architectures, network

restoration methods for optical cross-connects (for which he has numerous patents), and methods

for IP over optical-layer integration. He has published broadly in journals on

Telecommunications, Optical Networking, Mathematical Programming, IEEE CommSoc,

Operations Research, Applied Probability, and Network Management. He is member of the

Mathematical Programming Society, Optical Society of America (OSA), a Senior Member of

IEEE Communications Society, and an INFORMS Fellow. He serves as associate editor of the

Journals of Heuristics and Operations Research and has held key leadership positions of multiple

international telecommunications societies and conferences, most prominently the INFORMS

Technical Section on Telecommunications.

Optics in the Context of Network Convergence Andreas Gladisch, Head, Network Architecture Dept., Deutsch Telecom, Germany

Andreas Gladisch received the Dipl.Ing. Degree in Theoretical Electrotechnics

from the Technical University of Ilmenau, and the PhD in Optical

Communication from Humboldt University Berlin. He joined the Research

Institute of Deutsche Telekom in 1991 where he was involved in projects on WDM networks, for

example European Research Projects, like ACTS-Meton, ACTS-Demon, ACTS-Moon. He was

involved in projects dealing with the short term development of Deutsche Telekom transport

network especially the migration of SDH and WDM, including the development and assessment

of different network scenarios. He has been responsible for a projects covering the mid term

strategy of the transport network and the harmonisation of the transport networks of Deutsche-

Telekom-Group. Currently he is involved in projects dealing with the planning roll-out of NGN-

architecture.Dr. Gladisch is member of ITG and IEEE and he has authored or co-authored more

than 90 national and international technical conference- or journal-papers.

Integration of IP and DWDM: The Future is the Router David Ward, Cisco, USA

David Ward is a Cisco Fellow and is the architect of IOS-XR, Cisco's Service

Provider operating system and co-architect of the 92 Terabit CRS-1. He is

currently designing the next generation platforms for the Service Provider environment. David is

known in the industry because of his knowledge and expertise in IP/MPLS routing, high

availability, network design, and systems software. He is the WG chair of four IETF Working

Groups: IS-IS, HIP, BFD and Softwires. He speaks frequently at the North American Network

Operators Group (NANOG), IETF, IEEE and RIPE conferences and collaborates with several

university and private research groups, including MIT and Tsinghua University.

Short Courses 1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

SOLD OUT SC186, Hands-on Specialty Fiber Splicing, Clyde J. Troutman; 3SAE

Technologies, USA

SC208, Specialty Optical Fiber Design and Applications, David DiGiovanni; OFS Labs, USA.

SC210, Hands-on Polarization-Related Measurements Workshop, Danny Peterson

1, Kent

Rochford2, Ivan Lima

3, Rance Fortenberry

4;

1Verizon Business, USA,

2NIST, USA,

3North

Dakota State Univ., USA, 4Bookham Technology PLC, USA

NEW! SC288, Fundamentals of Polarization, PMD and PDL in Lightwave Systems, Robert

Jopson; Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs, USA.

2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide

SC123, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Raman Fiber Amplifiers, John Zyskind; JDSU,

USA.

NEW! SC290, High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Johan Nilsson; Univ. of

Southampton, UK.

3. Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensation Devices and Sensors

SC259, Electronic and Optical Impairment Mitigation, Chris Fludger; CoreOptics GmbH,

Germany.

SC265, Passive Optical Components and Filtering Technologies, Bruce Nyman1, Christi

Madsen2;

1Princeton Lightwave, USA,

2Texas A&M Univ., USA.

NEW! SC293, Introduction to Fiber Sensors, Michel Digonnet; Stanford Univ., USA.

4. Switching Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices

NEW! SC292, Planar Integrated Optics, Christopher R. Doerr; Bell Labs, Lucent

Technologies, USA.

5. Optoelectronic Devices

SC125, Tunable Lasers, Jens Buus; Gayton Photonics Ltd., UK.

SC175, Packaging of Optoelectronic, Photonic and MEMS Components, Paul Haugsjaa;

Polycision, Inc., USA.

SC177, High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators, John Bowers; Univ. of

California at Santa Barbara, USA.

SC178, Test and Measurement of High-Speed Communications Signals, Greg D.

LeCheminant; Agilent Technologies, USA.

SC215, Nanofabricated Lasers, Waveguides and Dispersive Elements, Axel Scherer; Caltech,

USA.

SC267, Silicon Microphotonics: Technology Elements and the Roadmap to

Implementation, Lionel Kimerling; MIT, USA.

6. Digital Transmission Systems

SC102, WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Neal S. Bergano; Tyco

Telecommunications, USA.

SC184, Introduction to Modeling High Data Rate Optical Fiber Communications Systems,

Curtis R. Menyuk; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

SC203, 40 Gb/s Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs, Martin Birk1, Benny

Mikkelsen2;

1AT&T Labs - Res., USA,

2Mintera, USA.

NEW! SC289, Basics of Optical Communication Systems and WDM, Gerd Keiser;

PhotonicsComm Solutions, Inc, USA.

7. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

SC103, Fast Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks, Daniel Blumenthal; Univ. of California

at Santa Barbara, USA.

SC105, Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems,

Peter J. Winzer, S. Chandrasekhar; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.

SC141, Combating Degrading Effects in Non-Static and Reconfigurable WDM Systems,

Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA.

SC239, Short-Reach Optical Interconnects, Brian E. Lemoff; Inst. for Scientific Res., USA.

8. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

SC205, Integrated Electronic Circuits for Fiber Optics, Y. K. Chen; Bell Labs, Lucent

Technologies, USA.

SC266, Quantum Cryptography and Quantum, Information, Matthew S. Goodman1, Richard

Hughes2;

1Telcordia Technologies, USA,

2Los Alamos Natl. Labs, USA.

9. Networks

SC114, Passive Optical Networks and FTTX, Paul W. Shumate; IEEE Lasers & Electro-

Optics Society, USA.

SC171, Introduction to Optical Control Plane Standards and Technology: OIF UNI,

GMPLS, G.ASON and All That!, Greg Bernstein1, Bala Rajagopalan

2;

1Grotto Networking,

USA, 2Intel Corp, USA.

SC176, Metro Network Architectures, Today and Tomorrow, Joseph Berthold; Ciena Corp.,

USA.

SC216, An Introduction to Optical Core Network Design and Planning, Jane Simmons;

Monarch Network Architects, USA.

SC243, Next Generation Transport Networks: The Evolution from Circuits to Packets , Ori

Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA.

SC261, ROADM Techologies and Network Applications, Thomas Strasser; Nistica, Inc.,

USA.

SC264, Optical Ethernet and Data Networking for Large Enterprises, Jeffrey L. Cox; JP

Morgan Chase, USA.

SC268, Hands-on Workshop on Outside Plant Splicing, Testing and Troubleshooting for

FTTx Networks, Larry Johnson; Light Brigade, Inc., USA.

SC269, Outside Plant Hands-on Testing and Troubleshooting, Larry Johnson; Light Brigade,

Inc., USA.

10. Emerging Applications and Access Solutions

SC101A, Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing,

Lorenz Cartellieri1, Peter Schweiger

2, John Kim

1, Karl Merkel

3, Michael Kelly

4, Caroline

Connolly5, Richard Buerli

5;

1Experior Photonics, USA,

2Agilent Technologies, Canada,

3Agilent

Technologies, USA, 4Agilent Technologies GmbH, Germany,

5OptoTest, USA.

SOLD OUT SC101B, Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component

Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri1, Peter Schweiger

2, John Kim

1, Karl Merkel

3, Michael Kelly

4,

Caroline Connolly5, Richard Buerli

5;

1Experior Photonics, USA,

2Agilent Technologies, Canada,

3Agilent Technologies, USA,

4Agilent Technologies GmbH, Germany,

5OptoTest, USA.

SC160, Microwave Photonics, Keith J. Williams; NRL, USA.

SC185, Hands-on Polishing, Inspection and Testing of Connectors, Phil Shoemaker1,

Katsuhisa Taguchi2, Neal Wagman

3;

1Light Brigade, Inc., USA,

2Seikoh Giken, USA,

3Norland

Products, USA.

SOLD OUT SC187, Hands-on Basic Fiber Optics for the Absolute Beginner, Dennis

Horwitz; Micronor Inc., USA.

SC217, Hybrid Fiber Radio: The Application of Photonic Links in Wireless

Communications, Dalma Novak; Pharad, LLC, USA.

SC260, Biomedical Diagnostic Applications of Communications Technologies, Brett E.

Bouma; Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

SC262, Alternative Broadband Access: Wired and Wireless Technologies for the Last Mile,

Paul S. Henry; AT&T Labs -- Res.., USA.

SOLD OUT NEW! SC291, Hands-On Fiber Optics For Engineers Designing For Military,

Aerospace, Shipboard and Industrial Harsh Environmental Applications, Dennis Horwitz;

Micronor Inc., USA.

Reliability and Qualifications

SC133, Reliability Methodologies for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; JDSU, USA.

NEW! SC294, Qualification Programs for Fiber Optic Components, David Maack; JDSU,

USA.